It caught the error, traced the root cause, wrote a fix, ran tests, opened a PR and flagged it for review. All while I was asleep. The PR was good. I merged it. And then I sat there for a while not totally sure how to feel about it. I've been an engineer for 8 years and that was the first time I genuinely felt like a reviewer of work rather than the person doing it. I don't think I'm being replaced tomorrow but something shifted in how I think about my role.
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